Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Principia Amoris: the New Science of Love
Stereotypically, science and emotion are diametric opposites: one is cold and unfeeling, the other soft and nebulous; one is based on proven facts while the other is based on inexplicable feelings... (more)
Surviving Family Care Giving: Co-ordinating Effective Care Through Collaborative Communication
Surviving Family Care Giving: Co-ordinating Effective Care Through Collaborative Communication is a practical book for family and other home carers in a variety of situations. Grainne Smith shows how... (more)
Play in Family Therapy: Second Edition
This classic volume, now completely revised, has helped tens of thousands of therapists integrate play therapy and family therapy techniques in clinical practice. Eliana Gil demonstrates a broad... (more)
An Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy: Second Edition
Now in its second edition, this text introduces readers to the rich history and practice of Marriage and Family Therapy, with 32 professionals from across the US presenting their knowledge in their... (more)
Differentiation of Self: Bowen Family Systems Theory Perspectives
Bowen theory views the family as an emotional unit. The family is a natural system that has evolved, like all living systems. The elegance and unity of the concept of differentiation of self, and of... (more)
Screen-Smart Parenting: How to Find Balance and Benefit in Your Child's Use of Social Media, Apps, and Digital Devices
Even for today's most tech-savvy parents, managing kids' technology use is a huge challenge fraught with uncertainties. What kinds (and amounts) of screen time boost learning and development--and... (more)
Parenting Girls on the Autism Spectrum: Overcoming the Challenges and Celebrating the Gifts
Parents of girls on the autism spectrum often wish their daughters were celebrated for their talents, rather than discouraged for their differences. They recognise that their children's unique... (more)
22 Things a Woman with Asperger's Syndrome Wants Her Partner to Know
Rudy Simone covers 22 common areas of confusion for someone dating a female with AS and includes advice from her own experience and from other partners in real relationships. She talks with humour... (more)
Love, Sex and Long-term Relationships: What People with Asperger Syndrome Really Really Want
What are the motivations and desires behind relationship choices and sexual behaviour? Are they very different for those with Asperger Syndrome (AS) than for anyone else? Does having extreme... (more)
Asperger Syndrome - A Love Story
Open, honest and upbeat, this book gives personal insight into both the ups and downs of an Asperger relationship. Seeking to challenge the bad press that people with Asperger Syndrome (AS) get as... (more)
Alone Together: Making an Asperger Marriage Work
Communication is one of the biggest challenges faced by people with Asperger's Syndrome (AS), yet an Asperger marriage requires communication more than any other relationship. Thousands of people... (more)
22 Things a Woman Must Know If She Loves a Man with Asperger's Syndrome
Although having Asperger Syndrome (AS) can make romantic relations difficult, having a fulfilling relationship with an Asperger man is certainly not impossible. A woman in love with a man with AS may... (more)
Letters to the Home Front: Positive Thoughts and Ideas for Parents Bringing up Children With Developmental Disabilities Such as Autism
Bringing up a child with developmental disabilities can present a range of challenges for parents. This book aims to provide a source of support for parents dealing with the everyday realities of... (more)
A Friend's and Relative's Guide to Supporting the Family with Autism: How Can I Help?
When a child is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), what the family really need, and often lack, is positive reassurance and understanding from those closest to them. This book is... (more)
Not on Speaking Terms: Clinical Strategies to Resolve Family and Friendship Cutoffs
Relationship breaks children from parents; friends from one another; between siblings are a common issue in therapy. Given the magnitude of the problem and the pain it causes, it is surprising that... (more)
Success for Modern Day Relationships: Working with Dating, Engaged, and Married Couples
Success for Modern Day Relationships: Working with Dating, Engaged, and Married Couples is a compilation of practical, effective, empirically tested techniques and interventions that allow a... (more)
Decisive Parenting: Strategies That Work with Teenagers
Decisive Parenting teaches parents concrete skills for quickly and permanently altering their teenagers' problem behaviors, ranging from argumentativeness and neglecting chores or homework to more... (more)
Play Therapy with Families: A Collaborative Approach to Healing
Play Therapy and Families: A Collaborative Approach to Healing provides a thorough description of play from prominent academics, researchers, and relevant writers who review it historically. It... (more)
Keeping Couples in Treatment: Working from Surface to Depth
Keeping Couples in Treatment: Working from Surface to Depth is written for the beginning or seasoned therapist who wants to learn a powerful and effective in-depth approach for keeping couples in... (more)
Mothering without a Home: Attachment Representations and Behaviors of Homeless Mothers and Children
Homeless women and their children who reside in a transitional housing facility or shelter have experienced multiple traumas and disruptions in their earliest attachments. These multiple, chronic... (more)
The Origins of Family Psychotherapy: The NIMH Family Study Project
Family therapy has become a well-established treatment modality across many mental health disciplines including clinical social work, psychology, psychiatry, nursing, and counseling. This book tells... (more)
Facilitating Meaningful Contact in Adoption and Fostering: A Trauma-informed Approach to Planning, Assessing and Good Practice
Most children who are fostered or adopted have some level of contact with their birth family, whether face-to-face or by letter, but most of the time the psychological impact of contact on the child... (more)
Essential Assessment Skills for Couple and Family Therapists
Showing how to weave assessment into all phases of therapy, this indispensable text and practitioner guide is reader friendly, straightforward, and practical. Specific strategies are provided for... (more)
Clinician's Guide to Research Methods in Family Therapy: Foundations of Evidence-Based Practice
A research methods text with a unique focus on evidence-based practice with couples and families, this book bridges the divide between research and clinical work. The text offers comprehensive,... (more)
Solving Modern Family Dilemmas: An Assimilative Therapy Model
Context is the unifying principle that guides a therapist's formulation of the modern family's presenting dilemmas, functioning, relationships, and attitudes. We can no longer assume that a family is... (more)
Common Complaints in Couple Therapy: New Approaches to Treating Marital Conflict
Marriage and couple therapists see clients with broken relationships and bonds all the time; those who were once madly in love can grow indifferent, people change, and couples go into sessions... (more)
Emotions and the Therapist: A Systemic-Dialogical Approach
In recent years, systemic theory and practice adopted a dialogical orientation, centred on the persons of the therapist and client. This has led to a growing attention toward emotions, which, in this... (more)
The Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives
This classic Family Therapy text continues to provide "a new and more comprehensive way to think about human development and the life cycle," reflecting changes in society away from orientation... (more)
Sexual Healing: Stories and Insights from the Therapist's Couch
Through tales of adultery and addiction, desire and its loss, good sex, bad sex and no sex, sexual power struggles, and childhood abuse, this book covers the big questions about sex: what is the... (more)
Working Therapeutically with Families
This resource provides a wealth of activities to use in therapeutic work with families, tailored to meet the particular needs of different types of family. In this book, chapters are organized by... (more)